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Anne Coombs

Anne Coombs reviews ‘Up we grew: Stories of Australian childhoods’ by Pamela Bone

November 2004, no. 266 01 November 2004
Childhood is a fertile territory for writers. Almost all first-time authors hoe it, and some continue to do so for the rest of their careers. Given the chance, most people cannot resist the impulse to reminisce about the horrors and delights of being a child. What is that makes children resilient? This is the central question of Pamela Bone’s book. It has become common wisdom that parental viol ... (read more)